Awning rod holder



March 13, 1934. Q w, GAsswlN-r ET AL 1,950,940

AWN ING ROD HOLDER Filed Feb. 13, 1933 25 816 L!! /21 M' 1.7.9@ 2716 27 28 15 //Y`zg 17 16 1 Syvum/WOM 5.5 40 31 C. PV. Hasan/zat 53 22 E. H. .P5109 Patented Mar. 13, 1934 PATENT OFFICE AWNING ROD HOLDER Charles W. Gasswint and Earl H. Young, Mason City, Iowa Application February 13, 1933, Serial No. 656,614

2 Claims.

The present invention relates to improvements in awning rod holders, and has for an object to provide an improved support for an awning which will enable the awning to be at- 5 tached to, and removed from, the building readily and expeditiously, thus overcoming the present great difiiculty of installing the awning in the spring and removing same in the fall.

The invention has for another purpose to permit the awning to be put up and removed from the inside.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved device for the above described purpose which will be rugged and inexpensive in construction and capable of operation with ease and dispatch, yet at the same time, when in place, holding the awning securely to the build- 111g.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention will be more fully described hereinafter, and will be more particularly pointed out in the claims appended hereto.

In the drawing, wherein like symbols refer to like or corresponding parts through the several views,

Figure 1 is a perspective View of an improved device constructed according to the invention and shown in a position of application to an awning.

Figure 2 is a vertical section taken on an enlarged scale through the device apart from the awning.

Figure 3 shows a similar View involving a slight modification.

Figure 4 is a front elevation of the socket member, and

Figure 5 is a top plan View of both members in assembled relation.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, 6 represents generally an awning having the lower awning rod 7 and the upper awning rod 8. The lower awning rod 7 is attached to the building by metal or other pieces 9 through which nails, screws or other fastenings 10 are driven. This piece 9 permits of a hinge connection of the awning rod 7 for the purpose of raising and lowering the awning. The upper awning rod 8 is bent to provide vertical side members 11 which are fastened as at 12 to the 50 ears of metal plates or pieces 13 through which screws, nails or other fastenings 14 are driven into the building.

In accordance with the invention the upper awning rod 8 is supported through vertically elongated slots 15 in the awning rod member 16. Such member 16 is provided with a T-head at its rear portion involving the mutual cutaway portions 17 having the front and rear shoulders 18 and 19 respectively and the rear T-head 2G. The members 16 are rst placed on 60 the upper rod member 8 in any desired position, and when the awning material is attached to the awning rods suitable portions are cut away or split to accommodate members 16.

As shown in Figures 2 and 3, the T-head is 65 formed on an upper portion of the rod member 16 and below this T-head there is a space bounded by the right angular faces 21 and 22, which are adapted to seat against similar faces on the bottom connecting yoke 23 of a socket 70 member which is provided with the eyes 24 for receiving screws, nails or other fastenings by which the socket member is attached to the building adjacent the awning rod 8. The yoke member 23 is formed with a flat seat 26 at its 75 upper portion to receive the face 21 below the T-head 20. Extending upwardly from the forward portion only of this seat 26 are webs or wings 27 which connect with the yoke 23 and also with the vertical side members 28 of 80 the socket member. A slot 29 separates the webs 27. The webs 27 are of a thickness to be received in the cut-away portions 17 of the rod member. The shoulders 18 and 19 are designed to t flush against the outer and inner surfaces of the webs 27 in order to hold the rod' member rigidly to the socket member and in a substantially upright position to properly support the awning rod 8.

Set screws 30 are threaded through the lower 90 outer portions of the rod members 16 and take beneath the rod 8 whereby to force the same upwardly in the elongated slots 15. The set screws 30 also serve to support the doubled ends of the looped metallic straps 31 in which the glass rings 95 32 depend. Lock nuts 33 are threaded on the screws 30 for binding the ends of the metallic strap up against the rod members 16.

The ropes 34 extend through the glass rings 32 and are attached to the lower bar 7 for the 100 purpose of raising and lowering the awning.

According to the form shown in Figure 3, the ends of the strap 31 are secured by the lock nuts 33 against a locking plate 35, which locking plate is elongated to extend beneath the yoke 23 or other part of the socket member and into a slot 40 thereof to avoid turning. The plate 35 will prevent the lifting of the T-head out of the socket member. v

In the use ofthe device, the rod holders 16 110 may be lifted vertically from the socket member or may be dropped vertically into the socket member in the positions shown in Figures 2, 3 and 5. Thereupon the screws 14 may be inserted and the rod members 16 retained and anchored in the socket members. The elongated slots 15 and adjusting screws 30 provide for any variation in position with respect to the socket members and holes for the fastenings 14; or the screws 30 may be backed down thus permitting play for the holders or rod members 16 to be lifted out of the socket members without removing the fastenings 14.

The elongated slots 15 also permit the members 16 to slip over the right angular turns made between the parts 8, 11 and 12.V Considerable expense is saved in making the parts 8, 11 and l2 in one piece.

It is obvious that various changes and modications may be made in the details of construction and design of the above specifically described embodiment of this invention without departing from the spirit thereof, such changes and modifications being restricted only by the scope of the following claims.

What is claimed is:-

1. In an awning having upper and lower rod members, a socket piece adapted to be attached to a building and having spaced wings located forwardly of the plane of the rear wall of the socket piece to provide a space behind the wings and a seat below the wings, and an awning rod holder adapted to be attached to the upper awning rod and having a T-head for interlockingly and slidably engaging with said wings and resting on said seat.

2. In an awning having upper and lower rod members, a socket member adapted to be attached to a building, a slotted rod holder, interlocking means between the socket member and the rod holder, a set screw engaging through the lower portion of the holder and entering said slot, a locking Aplate held by said screw beneath said socket member, and a ring suspended loosely from a member carried by said screw.

CHARLES W. GASSWINT., EARL H. YOUNG. 

